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Signlanguage interpreted. Our agendas are available in largeprint and braille. Please ask staff for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this rooms sound system and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentations, please science all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speakers card available in the front of the room or call our bridge line where a person will handle requests to speak at the appropriate time. The Mayors Disability Council councils are gene...

Come up. Good afternoon my name is anna burnec, 16 years old and a stative to e nationive to San Francisco and im also in the autistic spectrum and diagnosised with pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified or ppos, which is one of the three autistic spectrum disorders. Although i live a normal life, it can make things a little more complex. For example, i have problems with comprehending not so simple directions to places and i have to write them down. I dont really watch many reality shows or drama because i often get anxious or scared around the fighting and swearing and i ha...

Things that we believe that the best way to provide Language Access is actually having staff in staff to provide it and we make every effort that in every clinic whether San Francisco general or Community Based clinics we have that capability. If we dont have the capability we have an Interpreter Service thats actually run by the San Francisco general automatic transfer seem less transfer the patient themselves probably wont know that and then the dmi i dont know if you have seen the vmi the video medical interpretation but also we have i know i hear information from members of the community a...

To garden ers and park patrol officers so we are all day every day interacting with the public in various ways. Currently this year our budget for translation and interpretation was set at 40,000 of which so far we spent close to 30 thousand compared to last year at 15 thousand so doubled the amount of Language Translation Services we provided. Was that deliberate that you started to translate more materials . Yes. One of the largest barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Scholarship Applications so we now have the Scholarship Application available in chinese spanish russi...

Started to translate more materials . Yes. One of the largest barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Scholarship Applications so we now have the Scholarship Application available in chinese spanish russian and vietnamese and tagal will be coming towards the end of the summer now that thats on board there so along with the application for scholarship were also providing some written email communication weve been translating to be able to communicate with our scholarship clients to remind them to renew or remind them that they are signed up for a particular program so weve d...